Places Edited by Rachel James

Men in rubber-soled boots serve as your "brakes" on this toboggan ride Hemingway described as "exhilarating."

Only two of these trees remain in the natural world, found high in the cloud forest of the island of Mauritius.

Curious crustaceans support an obelisk from ancient Egypt that now stands in modern-day Central Park.

St Bernard de Clairvaux Episcopal Church, better known as one of the oldest European buildings in the Western Hemisphere.

This everlasting lightning storm may be the world's largest generator of ozone.

A historic hotel on the edge of the Australian outback.

Michael Heizer's masterwork in the Nevada Basin.

Sleep amongst an abundance of art from the modern era.

A fiery-red region of scooped out land still largely untouched by civilization, tourists or otherwise.

The world of the ancient Celtic civilization explained through a bewitching 11 acre garden.

A scientific repository of goiters, boils and other ailments throughout Mexican history.

The subtle interplay of fire and water is hard to ignore at this remote Jamaican spring.

Norway's oldest cathedral still in use.

On stormy days debris from this unfinished and abandoned skyscraper rains down on the Bangkok streets.

On the Spree bank, discover one of the last reminders of a symbolic wall that divided, and was torn down by the people.

Stalactites and stalagmites in a beautifully lit cave.

A unique underground structure dating back to the 1st century BC.

A scandalous Art Nouveau collaboration that set Paris all atwitter at the turn of the 20th century.

A bridge destroyed three times: once as a ruse, then in an actual attack, and finally for the movies.

Come for the flowers, stay for the bats!

A vast array of tropical plants collected by a vacationing couple.

The legendary cliffside castle of three-time Voivode of Wallachia, Vlad the Impaler.

The most playful of the life-sized statues that make up Singapore's "People of the River."

New Preston and Kent, Connecticut - where Friday the 13th, Part 2 was filmed.